Associate Manager Category Leadership

Title: Associate Manager Category Leadership

Location: Eagle, ID

Job Requisition ID: Req-260013

Time Type: Full time

About Lamb Weston

You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, and public Fortune 500 company, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world.

A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together.

If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you.

Job Description Summary

The Category Leadership Associate Manager, reporting to the Manager Category Leadership, supports the Foodservice Sales organization by providing category expertise, strategic insight, and actionable analysis that drives growth internally and externally. This role interprets industry trends and category data insights to provide strategy and tool recommendations that improve distribution and sales performance. The role leads through influence and partnership with Sales, Marketing, Innovation, Insights, and Portfolio Management, combining analytical rigor with strong storytelling to enable confident commercial decision-making.

Job Description

• Actively stay abreast of industry trends to provide relevant targets and goals
• Gather, analyze, and synthesize category, distributor, and market data into actionable insights for internal and external partners
• Support internal sales teams and external customers, and as needed participate in customer calls and meetings, through development of monthly reporting and dashboards, creation of business reviews/joint business planning initiatives, development of assortment analysis and product mix performance, and other requests as needed to deliver against commercial objectives
• Stay closely connected to key sales and customer partners through regular meetings and working sessions, ensuring category insights, analyses, and tools are delivered in support of agreed-upon needs and requests
• Proactively surface insights, risks, and opportunities based on ongoing category and competitive performance tracking to Marketing and Sales leadership
• Identify where category growth is occurring, which segments and products are driving performance, competitive gaps to ROM, and where whitespace or share-gain opportunities exist to support execution of Marketing, Innovation, and Sales objectives
• Collaborate with Marketing and Portfolio Management to inform go-to-market strategies, portfolio mix decisions, and innovation planning and execution
• Maintain data governance across category- and customer-level data sources by using approved tools, definitions, and processes, and partnering with external data providers to ensure accuracy, consistency, and appropriate application in Sales and Marketing use cases
• Develop and maintain recurring data reports and dashboards; execute ad hoc reporting using internal sales data, syndicated consumption data, and shipment metrics.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree
• Experience: 5-7 years of related industry experience or a related combination of education and experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• In-depth expertise in the use and applications of a variety of technologies and tools, including Microsoft Office Suite, including advanced Excel (Pivot Tables, Scorecard development, Look Ups, advanced Formulas) and industry related data sources (NPD Supply & Potato Tracks, Spectra, Technomic, Datessentials, Firefly)
• SAP and Salesforce experience preferred
• Up to 15% travel

Industry-Competitive Benefits

Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive.  Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision

• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts

• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program

• Paid Time Off

• Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance

• Family-Friendly Employee events

• Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services

Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Anticipated Close Date

The anticipated close date is a good faith estimate for when this job will be closed. Some jobs may be unposted or filled earlier or later than the Anticipated Close Date depending on interview processes and business needs.

Anticipated Close Date: 04/10/2026

Pay Transparency

In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range posted based on various factors, including, but not limited to, job duties, experience and expertise. A candidate's work location could also impact the actual compensation being outside of the range to reflect local cost of labor. A reasonable annual estimate of the range for this role is listed below.

Pay Rate or Range: $84,070.00 - $126,100.00

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lamb Weston is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law